Capital ideas

It has been exactly one hundred years since Walter Burley Griffin submitted his designs in 1913 for Canberra as the perfect capital city for Australia – if we could do it again, now, what would we do differently?

Times have changed. Questions of sustainability, liveability, transport and climate change challenge the way we live today, and must influence plans for the future.

To mark Canberra’s centenary, a competition was launched prompting a whole new generation of town planners, urban designers, architects and students to design a hypothetical capital city for the next century.

More than 1200 practitioners registered their interest in the CAPITheticAL competition, with entries received from 24 different countries.

The top twenty finalists will be on display in the Gallery of Australian Design in Canberra from now until 11 May 2013.

For more information on the competition and the exhibition, visit the capithetical website.